This particular picture i chose was my second year at MSU. It was Halloween, and was the first Halloween since i was around six or so that i really cared what i was dressing up as. I had planned my costume for two months, and had ordered my Marilyn Monroe costume at a store in Billings. I am with two of my roommates at the time, one of which i lived with for a total of five years. Mandy, the one dressed like Daisy Duke was my roommate that MSU paired me up with, and like i said lived with her for four more years after our first year in the dorms. When i found this picture at the end of my pictures on Facebook, i started to remember the excitement we all had that night. All of my roommates and I had planned our costumes, and had worked so hard to get them just right! It was as if it was a contest, but for us it was that one night to dress up and be a little crazy. Ever since this Halloween i have been excited to dress up, and have a costume weeks in advance and know exactly what i am going to be. when i look closer at the costumes i remember Maddie's, we had glued on all of the little leaves to her top that had taken her weeks to find. and also had had to sew on all the leaves to her wings.
The house that we are at is the very first house that we had rented after being in the dorms. When we all moved into that four bedroom, one bath , place, I dont think we were anything but ecstatic to have our own place, to be able to do what we please. The picture in the very background, that is dark and can barley be seen, is a picture that has hung in all my immediate family's homes at some point. it is a poster from the boston marathon in 1984 i believe, so two years before i was born, but my mom and grandfather had run in it that year, and my grandpa had framed it. Ever since i was little i have loved that poster, not even knowing the significance of it, but the colors and print i have always loved.